According to ABC News Blotter blog the US warned that Glasgow airport was a target two weeks ago. Did continuity and change get in the way perhaps? Obviously I'm not suggesting that a handover of power actively took precedent over a security concern. More that perhaps our attention was diverted in general terms over the past couple of weeks, thus given credence to the idea that this was an attack targeted directly at Brown to remind him that a change in leadership will not change their ideology?
Hat Tip: The ever present Spectator Coffee House
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I suspect there will be very heavy hands at work over the next wee while. Glaswegians do not take kindly to being messed around - unlike Edinbuggers and Fifers, who we regard as somewhat effete
I wonder how Salmond will react to this. Will he use it as a way to have a bash at Iraq policies, as he tends to have a habit of jumping onto bandwagons...
RS
Surely the people who actually do the day-to-day security stuff haven't moved on? Luckily we don't have that US-style "all change" in the civil service when the leader changes.
@kinglear
Yes that is perhaps one of the reasons the IRA never targeted Scotland. The Rangers v Celtic games would have taken on a whole new character!
In Glasgow there will be a backlash. Guaranteed.
A hand of over of power like this would have no impact at all on working levels within ACPO, JTAC or MI5. So no attention would not have been diverted. If anything I'd expect JTAC to be more sensitive to threat reporting given the potential additional motivation for the terrorists (re Madrid etc).
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